Mark Ford

Mark Ford teaches in the English Department at University College London. His most recent collection of poetry, Soft Sift, takes its title from Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Wreck of the Deutschland. " This year he has published editions of the poetry of Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. (January 2009)

From the Review

April 30, 2009: 'The Poet & the Wreck': An Exchange

January 15, 2009: The Poet and the Wreck

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life by Paul Mariani

Exiles by Ron Hansen.

November 6, 2008: The Myths of Ted Hughes

Letters of Ted Hughes selected and edited by Christopher Reid

April 3, 2008: How Yeats Did It

Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler

January 17, 2008: A Master of Noir

Voyage Along the Horizon by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero

The Man of Feeling by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

All Souls by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

Dark Back of Time by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen

A Heart So White by Javier Marìas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

September 27, 2007: The Dreams of Allen Ginsberg

Collected Poems, 1947–1997 by Allen Ginsberg

I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937–1952 by Allen Ginsberg,edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan

The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later edited by Jason Shinder

Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero by David Sandison and Graham Vickers

The Yage Letters Redux by William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile edited by Barry Miles

Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression edited by Bill Morgan andNancy J. Peters

December 21, 2006: The Call of the Stallion

Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon

The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures by Paul Muldoon

October 5, 2006: Our Man in the Underworld

My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews

Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie

November 17, 2005: The Man Who Came to Dinner

Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951–1991 edited by William Corbett

Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter edited by Ted Leigh, with an introduction by David Lehman and additional notes by Justin Spring

June 9, 2005: A Holiday in Reality

Where Shall I Wander by John Ashbery

December 2, 2004: Surprise! Surprise! (poem)

Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate

June 10, 2004: Auden Remakes 'The Tempest'!

The Sea and the Mirror:A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest by W.H. Auden, edited by Arthur Kirsch

November 20, 2003: Playing with Today

The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic

The Metaphysician in the Dark by Charles Simic

Charles Simic in Conversation with Michael Hulse

September 25, 2003: At Arm's Length

Poems, 1968–1998 by Paul Muldoon

Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon

July 17, 2003: Reproduction (poem)